Blog software

[RichardR]

Does anyone have any recommendations for blog software?

Thanks

[bigred]

?? A "blog" is just a web page. Any HTML editor will do.

[Eleatic Stranger]

http://www.blogger.com is a nice place to start, though, if your priorities involve 'freeness' and 'easyness'.

[RichardR]

Originally posted by bigred
?? A "blog" is just a web page. Any HTML editor will do. Sure. But some of us don’t want to reinvent the wheel. :)

[RichardR]

Originally posted by Eleatic Stranger
http://www.blogger.com is a nice place to start, though, if your priorities involve 'freeness' and 'easyness'. Thanks. I have been looking at Blogger.

I think it’s down to Radio Userland http://radio.userland.com/ or TypePad http://www.typepad.com/

[Nasarius]

I believe is the most popular one. There's also <a href=http://www.slashcode.com/>Slash (http://www.movabletype.org/>Movable).

[RichardR]

Originally posted by Nasarius
I believe is the most popular one. There's also <a href=http://www.slashcode.com/>Slash (http://www.movabletype.org/>Movable). Thanks. Moveable Type is often considered the best but you need to be a bit technical – run perl scripts and stuff – which I’m not that into. TypePad is a non-geek version from the same people, but completely re-written. It looks good but everything is on their server which I’m a little uneasy about. RadioUserland is the other one I’m looking at, and this runs on your PC and you upload it to the host. Any host, although the vendor offers one.

They both have a month’s free trial. I think I’ll download both and spend a couple of hours on each this weekend.

[Anathema]

My vote, hands-down is WordPress, http://wordpress.org/

[H3LL]

Several bits of free software on this page at:

SnapFiles.com - Blog (http://www.snapfiles.com/downloadfind.php?st=blog&search=Search&lc=1&action=s)

[RichardR]

Thanks for the input everyone. I decided to go with TypePad (https://www.typepad.com/t/app/home) in the end. It was just incredibly easy to use - I was up and running in literally five minutes (although I have spent several hours since, playing with the options ;) ).

Check it out. (http://skeptico.blogs.com/)

RichardR aka Skeptico.